Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 770m south west of Newton Brow

A Scheduled Monument in Newton Mulgrave, North Yorkshire

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Details

The monument includes a round barrow which lies on level moorland at the
north edge of the North York Moors.
The barrow has an earthen mound which measures 5m in diameter and stands up
to 0.4m high. It was originally surrounded by a ditch up to 2m wide which has
largely become filled in over the years and is now only visible as a shallow
depression around the base of the mound.
The barrow was originally one of at least eight spread across the north east
side of Newton Mulgrave Moor and lies in an area rich in prehistoric
monuments, including further barrows, field systems and settlements.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Unlike other barrows in this area, the barrow 770m south west of Newton Brow
has not been excavated. The archaeological deposits survive intact and
significant information about the original form of the barrow and the burials
placed within it will be preserved. Evidence for earlier land use and the
contemporary environment will survive beneath the barrow mound and within the
buried ditch.
The barrow belongs to a group of at least eight burial monuments and such
clusters provide important insight into the development of ritual and funerary
practice during the Bronze Age. It is situated within an area which includes
other monuments dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Associated groups
of monuments such as these demonstrate a continuity of occupation throughout
the prehistoric period and offer important scope for the study of the
distribution and development of prehistoric activity across the landscape.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Spratt, D A , 'Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology in North East Yorkshire' in Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology of North East Yorkshire, , Vol. 87, (1993)

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